—Lancaster Farming, Saturday,, December 12, 1959 4 FROM WHERE WE STAND - Security Is A State It may be true that, "The love ui money is the root of all evil," but it seems to us that the present day craze for secur ity must be the stalk on which it grows. Another editor recently said, "There is such a thing as money There is NO such thing as security." (The capitals are his) We can almost buy this state ment as made. Almost—not quite. Secur ity does exist, but you can not see it, feel it, smell it, taste it, or hear it. You can not buy it, steal it, sell it, or give it away, but you can destroy it very easily. Security is a state of mind Police records are full of suicides who thought they could buy security and found out they had nothing but material goods on a falling market History is hill of dethroned dictators who thought they could force themselves into security by the use of powerful armies. We could go on and on, but you get the idea. When we were youngsters in school we worshipped the rugged individualists whet were not afraid to take a chance. Today it is almost impossible to get any one to enter a new venture without a written guarantee that nothing is going to be risked. A representative of a feed company recently told us that one of the farmers who has fed broilers on contract for his company „for several years 'has never fed a batch that did not make a profit, bat ■when this farmer was asked to feed his broilers on his own capital rather than on contract with the company, he refused. He did not refuse because capital was unavailable, but because he was unwil ling to take a risk to make a larger per cent return for himself. We realize this is only one case in ooint, but it seems to be the general trend in all phases of our national life. Young people coming into industry don't ask about advancement opportunities any more. They are concerned more over the tenure phrase in the Union con tract, than whether they may be able to advance to a position of authority, higher monetary returns, more satisfying work, or a position which will challenge their natural abilities. Farmers have Davidson Fifteen, years ago a promi- Ist, the motion picture people nent public st talked to me were paid to photograph as about a method which he much smoking as possible by said beat all other forms as women portrayed as social advertising and publicity, leaders In due time, it was both as to effectiveness and reasoned, girls would think low cost that if they did not smoke, He said that various people too > tbey Woul< ? b * looked U P‘ engaged in the production of as be „ ng n °bodies motion p ctures such as cam- Liquor Promotion era men, assistant directors, Likew se he said the same etc. were being paid under people were paid to get as the table by people interested much social drinking into the an promoting the sale of cig scenes as posible so that peo arettes and liquor At that pie of both "'exes would think *ime a large percentage of that if you did not engage in women and young girls did social drinking you had no not smoke standing whatsoever He said that this plan had been even more effective than the mil lions of dollars spent in true advertising. So according to this public Lancaster Farming Lancaste* County'* Own Farm Weekly P u Box 1524 LancastM Penna. Offices* 53 \oi*h Duke St Lancaster Penna. Phone Lancaster EXnress 4-3047 Jack Owen, Editor Rohpn mphrll Advertising ■Hn nr t n Puslnoss ■Rpta I'lKhpr* Vovemher 4 19*55 Pnb’ishrd v< rv Saturday h-v Eanc isfrr ramming. Lancaster Pa Entered a« °nd class matte** at Lancactor Pi under Act of Mar tt 1 Tr i entry at Mount Subscription Hates* $2 per year; £hree years S 5 Single copy Price G cents Afern» r- V<wsp.iper Pnbisn- N.itional CTitoi- f i »n ' <*S( t \al Association been seeking this THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson Payola Everywhere Just about that time I took a trip to Honolulu on the Lurhne steamship I noticed that during the dancing after d nner, the Captain refused to accept any drinks. He said that he was not permitted to drink even water while sit ting at the tab’e; some pass engers might think that he was drinking gin and would obiect to the man in whose care the ship rested drinkmg liquor Soon after returning I saw a motion picture in which a well known movie star play ed the role of Captain of this 'ame ship A young couple came into his cabin to visit and he immediately got out 0/ Mind thing called security for a long time. Wo are prone to shove all the responsibility for the decisions made in Washington on to someone else, but none of the legisla tion' in force today would have come about if some constituient had not brough’ pressure to bear on some legislator. Subsidies paid out by the federal government are paid out because some farmer, sometime, somewhere wanted more security than he could see in the financial structure of the business of Agri culture at that particular time, and he put the pressure on his representative in congress. But you can not legislate a state of mind, and the farmer probably ended the year with just as many wornes after receiving his subsidy payment as before. There will probably be more legisla tion passed on the pretex of helping the marginal farmer stay m business, but there has not yet/and likely never will be any farm legislation that has not help ed the efficient farmer vastly more than the inefficient one. Now lest you get the idea that wo think the fanner is the only one in the country seeking security through grants of federal aid, let us assure you that this is not the case. Many other segments of the economy have been receiving govern mental subsidies for years. For example, urban renewal grants from the federal government give cities two dollars for ev ery one they put up. Bat where does this money come from ? Wouldn't it have pro vided just as much security it it had stay ed in the hands of the taxpayers from the beginnmg. Security is, at best, a sort of nebulous thing. It may be different things to differ ent people, but of this we are sure, secur ity can not be leg s’a ed and when sought most earnestly will prove most elusive. It is time .for us farmers to stop wor rying about taking all the risk out of the business. If there were no risks, there would be no challenge, and without chal enge there would be no reward. Without reward, security would be a pretty hol low thing. 1 At least that's where we stand, the liquor and began mixing cocktails, I asked myself the question, “how much was somebody paid to get this liquor scene in “which wuS absolutely contrary to what actually happens on the Ha wa ian bound steamships Congressional Investigation Just recentlji we learned that a depertment store own er in Pennjlvama paid radio and TV personnel to mention the name of his store on oth er sponsors’ programs. And it appears that a large per centage of the so-called disc jockeys were being paid as much as $59,000 per year to plug certain records. Al though they were employed to play the records that the public wanted most, t ap pears that they played the records for which they were paid the most by the record ing companies. Just how far does this evil penetrate’ Well, that is a qeustion which a Congress ional committee is going to find the answer to. TAKE SOIL SAMPLES In February, March, and April more than half of all soil amples for the whole > ear are received at the Pennsylvania State Universi ty soil testing service labor atory Wayne Himsh, Penn State extension agronomist, remind? that samples should be taken before the ground freezes and thus avoid the rush. CARE FOR TOOLS Clean the garden tools thoroughly before they are put away for the winter, re minds A O Rasmussen, Penn State extension ornament? I Horticulturist Check for needed repairs and coat rhe tools with grease to keep mst away. how it looks from Bible Material : Acts 9 32 tluough 11 IS, Devotional Beading? John 10 9-16. Not Smpassibße Lesson for December 13, 1959 Every CHURCH that is really alive is actively looking for new members. These members can be gained in two ways, one bad, one good The bad way is sometimes called “sheep-stealing,” a diction aiy word for it is "proselyting.” The church that practices this never goes after non-Christians, it is not truly evan gelistic; it gets its members from existing churches, chiefly by slander, assur ing these people that the- church to which they be long is not really Christian. One such Dr. Foreman church recently had the light turn ed on it Of its more than 100 mem bers, every one had been proselyted from other denominations; and in a year’s time not one new member had been actually been won to Christ. The truly evangelistic church, on the contrary, while it does, like all churches, welcome people from other denominations, nevertheless puts its main drive into winning people who have not been Chris tians before. Possibles and Impossibles The evangelistic church, in short, is interested m conversion, first of all. But for many such churches, even good ones, the list of pros pects is a list of "possibles.” There are persons in the communt ity who are impossible, so far as that church is concerned. Now if the Bible teaches any thing it teaches that there are-no really impossible cases. To be more precise about it, there are no cases which we as Christians have a right to label “impossible ” The book of Acts tells a number of stories about conversions which we today would think very unlikely. The story of the Roman aimy officer named Cornelius is a case in nomt Now Is The Time ... BY MAX SMITH TO ADD SUPER PHOSPHATE TO MA NURE All forms of livestocks manure are low in phosphorus, by the same token over 90% of the soils tested in Lancaster County are also found to be low m avail able phosphorus. This means that by re en forcing manure with super-phosphate din ing the wmter months we will be improv ing our soil fertility. In the dairy barns IV2 to 2 pounds per cow per day in the gutter will aid crop yields as well as make the barn more sanitary In the steer pens MAX SMITH an application of Bto 10 pounds per head per week before adding new bedding is iccommended. TO EXERCISE THE MILKING HERD—Good dairy held management includes the turning out of the cows at least once a day for exercise and for detecting heat periods This will keep the animals in better physical condition, stronger on their feet and legs, and prevent fast foot growth How ever, the cows should not be out long enough that they will be permitted to lie down on the cold ground or on concrete floors. TO USE CARE IN STORING CHEMICALS Don't store spray materials of any kind with or near teed supplies Many insecticides and fungic des are poisonous and may easily get into ihe feed. Also, herbicides such as 2, 4 D can kill the germination on most all of our grains and farm and garden seeds. Don’t use the milk house either, be cause milk wll pick up the odors from most chemicals Store the materials in a dry place, away from feed and toed supplies, away from children, and be suic they are well labeled TO PROVIDE FIRE PROTECTION Aie you ready to fight a fire in one of your buildings until the fire company arrives? During the winter months theie is more chance ot farm fire and more at stake in case of a lire. In the first place chimneys should be inspected and fixed to close cracks with mortT and keep sparks confined E\cry farm should have at least one fire extinguisher that is m working order and all employees know how to operate it Advance atten tion and planning may save lives and considerable property. Enemy’s Man It took a vision from heaven to convince Simon Peter that God wanted him even to speak with this Cornelius. Certainly under normal circumstances Peter would have crossed the street to avoid him. For Cornelius was an officer m the Roman - army of occupation. All during the time covered by the Gospels and Acts, Palestine was an occupied country. The undergiound was active, and eventually bioke loose in a ruinous rebellion The Romans had to keep an army and permanent military installations all over the place, to hold down rioters and restless people. Chns tian congregations (as we now call them) at that time were made up entirely of Jewish converts, and you may be sure no such congre gation would have regarded an officer of the Army of Occupation as a likely piospect. A Despised Race Worse than this, the more le ligious a Jew was, the moie he looked down on all non-Jews We have lace prejudice in Amenca, but it is hardly anything com pared to the prejudice the ancient Jew had against the non-Jewish races It made no difference how important or wealthy the foreigner might be The mere fact that he was foreign marked him as un touchable. There are many churches m America today, one race churches like those in early days, who would definitely off from their list of prospects a person of another race. A Good Man Furthermore*, if any member of the Jerusalem church had got near enough to this Roman officer to know something about him pei sonally. it would have come out that he was already a very good man. Possibly even better than some of the Christians. He was a charitable, prayerful man, quite unlike the run-of-mine Roman sol dier. It might have been said, “Here is a good citizen, he doesn’t need us. Let’s concentrate on real sinners. Talking to a yian like Coi nelius about ‘salvation’ would get nowhere.” But God saw otherwise. The man Cornelius was good, but no human goodness is good enough to earn God’s grace. What Simon Peter had, Cornelius needed: Christ the Savior, and the Holy Spirit. Cornelius brought much with him; but God gave him much moie , (Based on outline* copyrighted hy the Division of Christian Education. National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S A Released hy Community Press Service.)
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